João Fraga
Chief Executive Officer at Paag
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolJoão Fraga is a founder and CEO with 11 years of professional experience and 15+ years coding as a self-taught engineer, building regulated fintech products and platforms from the ground up. He leads Paag, a Brazilian TechFin he co-founded, which delivers payment, KYC/AML, fraud prevention and digital identity infrastructure integrated with Brazil’s Central Bank and compliant with recent national betting regulations. João combines hands-on engineering (backend contributions to projects like Redash) with product, regulatory advocacy and corporate development, having guided Paag through strategic partnerships, M&A and banking integrations. His career spans rapid product delivery in startups and enterprise settings, from building an adaptive edtech platform used by half a million users to migrating monoliths to microservices. He excels at translating complex regulatory constraints into clear, auditable digital experiences and business models. Based in Minas Gerais, he thrives at the intersection of product, markets and regulation, often acting as the bridge between technology teams and government stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Informática Lógica de Programação Organização de Empresas Base de dados Programação Avançada PHP, Técnico em Informática Lógica de Programação Organização de Empresas Base de dados Programação Avançada PHP at Colégio COTEMIG
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (11)
postgresql10
sql10
back-end-development10
python10
mysql10
analytics9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
internationalization6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
getredash/redash
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:João primarily focused on enhancing the data retrieval and processing capabilities within the Redash platform. Their work involved implementing a `fetch_columns` method to avoid column duplication issues. They refactored existing code, integrating the new method into the `run_query` functions for PostgreSQL and MySQL query runners. Furthermore, the user improved column name formatting for a more robust data handling.
pythondatacompany-datavisualizebusiness-intelligence
appprova/katex2html
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 releases, 41 commits, 9 PRs in 27 days
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